Spring 2027

Palliative Care Elective

An elective where students participate in patient care within a Palliative Care Unit, consult service, and home visits to gain experience with fundamental palliative care concepts.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sara Johnson

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate understanding of palliative medicine/hospice approach toward patients with serious or life-threatening illness.

  • Experience the consultative and inpatient practice of palliative care and home hospice

  • Improve confidence and skill in the appropriate delivery of bad news and discussing end-of-life issues with patients and families

  • Practice working with interdisciplinary team (physician, nurse, social worker, chaplain) management of patients with serious illness

  • Describe best practice in the appropriate use of opioids and other medical treatment to improve quality of life for palliative care patients

Source: UW Guide

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  • Graduate/professional standing
MEDICINE 916

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Spring 2027
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SARA JOHNSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
FLD 046Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 010Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 012Classroom Instruction0 / 80
FLD 011Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 041Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 042Classroom Instruction0 / 50

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Student experience

the class

Participating with the care of patients in the Palliative Care Unit, on the Palliative Care Consult Service, and through home visits or outpatient care opportunities, experience and understanding will be gained of fundamental palliative care concepts. Management of common symptoms, such as pain, dyspnea, and anxiety, while practicing and improving specificcommunication skills, such as delivering bad news, determining goals of care, or running a family meeting. Expand understanding of goals of care and decision-making for patients with serious illness, DNR orders, medical decision-making capacity, surrogate-decision-making, care of the patient at end of life, as well as psychosocial issues related to loss, grief, and bereavement.

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Topics

  • Goals of care, DNR orders, medical decision-making capacity, surrogate-decision-making, and psychosocial issues of loss and grief.
  • Management of common symptoms including pain, dyspnea, and anxiety.

Skills

  • Managing common palliative symptoms like pain and dyspnea, and practicing communication skills for delivering bad news and running family meetings.
  • Working within an interdisciplinary team to manage patients with serious illness.

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MEDICINE 916 · Spring 2027

Palliative Care Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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